-The Hindu Court rejects road rage theory of U.P. police. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday did not buy the Uttar Pradesh Police’s version that the Hapur lynching of two men by cow vigilantes, leading to the death of one of them, was a “road rage” incident which turned fatal. Instead, a Bench, LED by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, ordered the Inspector General of Police, Meerut division, to conduct a...
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Amarjeet Sinha, Rural development secretary, interviewed by Sayantan Bera and Elizabeth Roche (Livemint.com)
-Livemint.com Rural development secretary Amarjeet Sinha on how MGNREGS has evolved since 2006 to result in income, acreage, water tables, productivity and fodder availability Agrarian distress and rural distress are terms used interchangeably, but the rural economy today is very different from what it was many years ago, given the diversification of rural incomes and hence incorrect to think one means the other, says Amarjeet Sinha, secretary, ministry of rural development. In...
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-Down to Earth Instead of encouraging them on paper, the government has to create a few model FPOs in the country and provide institutional support to them The Narendra Modi-LED government has been tirelessly claiming that it would double farmers’ income by 2022. There is a lot of evidence to show that in the pursuance of this target, the income of farmers has not increased, but has rather stalLED or decreased. Consequently,...
More »Only 9% Of Declared Income of India's National Parties Comes From Sources Known To The Public -Aman Kumar
-TheCitizen.in NEW DELHI: The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on August 7 released a report detailing the donations declared by regional political parties to the Election Commission (EC) for the 2016-17 financial year. Of the 48 parties considered in the report, 16 including the People’s Democratic Party and the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen have yet to submit their declarations to the EC. A further six claim to have received no contributions at...
More »Modi govt's ad spend could feed 46 million children mid-day meal for a year -Shreya Raman
-Business Standard/ India Spend The BJP-LED government spent Rs 4,880 crore ($753.99 million) on advertising its flagship schemes in the 52 months between April 2014 and July 2018 Mumbai: Midday meals for 45.7 million children for a year. One day’s wages for 200 million workers under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS). About 6 million new latrines. And at least 10 more Mars missions. These were some of the things...
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